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Political scientist writing Drezner's World on international relations, American politics and the marketplace of ideas; author of The Ideas Industry.

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  The U.S. dollar's continued global dominance is a lagging indicator, not proof that American hegemony remains intact.

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  the dollar's status is not a harbinger of U.S. hegemonic decline - it's a lagging indicator.

  The Dollar Will Be the Last Pillar To Falldanieldrezner.substack.com

Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  People can appreciate others' contributions in certain domains without agreeing with them on everything.

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  You don't have to agree with everyone about everything to appreciate their contributions in certain domains.

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Writes Don't Worry About the Vase, a near-daily account of what is happening in AI and what they think it means. Former Magic: the Gathering pro and trader; unusually willing to put a number on a belief and to grade their own past calls.

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  The AI models involved in the HuggingFace hack incident were severely misaligned, not merely victims of process failures.

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  The biggest failure, the one that counts in the end, was that the models were severely misaligned, and I don’t think they appreciate why.

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Founded PSPDFKit in 2011 and ran it for a decade. Came back from a break to work on AI agents — the OpenClaw project, and OpenAI, joined in February 2026. Writes at steipete.me.

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  Pick something hard and boring: fun problems are the crowded ones now that anybody can prompt a thing into existence.

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  Maybe I would pick something again that's that's in the category hard and boring because that's usually a category that is a little bit easier to actually find people that will appreciate when you solved something. If you pick something that is fun, even if it's hard, you're gonna have a very tough time, especially in a time where people can just prompt things into existence.

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China economy researcher based in Beijing who writes on his personal blog about Chinese political economy, history, books and music.

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  China's real exchange rate should appreciate through higher domestic inflation, not currency revaluation.

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  My view is that an appreciation of China's REER is very much to be desired, but the real (haha) way to get there is through higher inflation domestically, and that means different macro policies.

  Real talk about the exchange rateandrewbatson.com

Writes jvns.ca, turning "hard and scary" topics — networking, debugging, Linux internals — into plain explanations and hand-drawn comics. Publishes Wizard Zines, illustrated programming zines. Software developer based in Montreal.

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  SQLite is a fine production database for a small site, but running it well is more complicated than the "SQLite in production is totally fine" blog posts make it sound.

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  I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I think it is totally fine, but what I did not fully appreciate is that SQLite is still a database, databases are complicated, and I do not know a lot about operating databases.

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Statistician and software engineer who writes R packages for reproducible research and publishing, including knitr, bookdown and blogdown.

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  People only truly grasp the harm of a gatekeeping rule once that same rule is turned against their own work.

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  All they need before they can truly appreciate empathy and humanity is one thing: have one of their own posts closed and deleted by another group of gatekeepers.

  Bye, Stack Overflowyihui.org

Clinical psychologist, EMDR consultant and yoga teacher in Boulder, Colorado. Author of The Complex PTSD Workbook and EMDR Therapy and Somatic Psychology; writes on trauma, attachment and the nervous system.

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  Regulation must precede reflection: cognitive insight fails while a nervous system is in defensive dominance.

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  Polyvagal theory provided me with a coherent framework for understanding why cognitive insight alone often fails when a nervous system is in defensive dominance. In such states, higher-order cortical processes are functionally constrained.

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Director of institutional asset management at Ritholtz Wealth Management. Writes the A Wealth of Common Sense blog and co-hosts the Animal Spirits podcast with Michael Batnick.

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  The Handmaid’s Tale

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  I liked the book a lot more than the show but watching the show helped me appreciate the book more.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  An abstraction chosen wrongly at the start means a team can never make its software great, however good that team is.

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  Just imagine you use very bad software and um the team that started the project decided early to use Xamarin and then they never had a chance of making this as good as all the other things you really appreciate on your phone due to this decision no matter how good they are.

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Technology analyst whose weekly email on tech reaches over 150,000 readers. Publishes essays and an annual presentation on where the industry is going.

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  Being certain a technology matters tells you almost nothing about where its value will end up being captured.

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  It wasn't clear that the browser wasn't where the value capture was cuz Microsoft crowbarred its way into dominance in browsers but that turned out not to matter and then all the value is in search advertising and social which were 5 years later and 10 years later and so like you can be very very clear that this is the thing and then still be completely unclear how it's going to work.

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  Slow Boring

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  He takes a very proto-rationalist, practical approach to this, that I very much appreciate, complete with yearly predictions. The writing is consistently enjoyable and clear.

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Writes Where's Your Ed At and hosts Better Offline; runs a tech PR firm, and argues at length that the AI business does not add up.

From one piece The Era Of The Business Idiot 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Once shareholder value is the only goal, nothing else — the customer, the product, the workplace — is anybody’s job.

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  When you care only about shareholder value, the only job you have is to promote further exploitation and dominance — not to have happy customers, not to make your company "a good place to work," not to make a good product, not to make a difference or contribute to anything other than further growth.

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  Management has stopped meaning doing work and now means maintaining a culture of dominance and extraction.

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  Management as a concept no longer means doing "work," but establishing cultures of dominance and value extraction.

  The Era Of The Business Idiotwheresyoured.at

Founder of the toy manufacturer Viahart; writes about manufacturing, importing and why bringing production back to America is harder than it sounds.

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  China's manufacturing dominance rests on work ethic, knowhow and infrastructure rather than on low wages, because many countries pay less and cannot do it.

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  It’s the work ethic, knowhow, commitment, combined with top notch infrastructure, that makes China the most powerful manufacturing country in the world today.

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Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

From one piece Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominance 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The United States is not at risk of a financial crisis caused by the size of its government debt.

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  Stabilizing factors such as the global demand for U.S. dollars and debt denominated in its own currency suggest an era of fiscal dominance in the U.S. that's less dramatic than alarmists predict but more persistent and intractable than optimists hope.

  Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominancelynalden.com

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  Raising interest rates cannot meaningfully cool inflation when structural fiscal deficits, not private-sector lending, are its main driver.

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  Since inflation is not primarily driven by private-sector lending in the current environment, making borrowing more expensive will not significantly cool the economy.

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  Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary driver of economic activity and inflation.

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  Structural fiscal deficits have surpassed private sector lending and monetary policy as the primary drivers of economic activity and inflation, marking a fundamental shift in the economy's liquidity dynamics.

  Full Steam Ahead: All Aboard Fiscal Dominancelynalden.com

Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.

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  The C Programming Language

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  The C Programming Language - I've finally gotten to the point in my career where I can appreciate the elegance of this book.

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  Judging an AI by how close it is to a human is the mistake: appreciating what it can actually do is both more accurate and better protection against its dangers.

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  And rather than trying to ask, how close is it to being a human-like intelligent, we should appreciate it for what its capabilities are, and that will both be more accurate and help us put it to work and protect us from the dangers better rather than always anthropomorphizing it.

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  When safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, rolling over public debt without later tax increases is feasible and public debt may carry no fiscal cost.

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  If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.

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  Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.

Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  The single greatest risk of AI is not AI itself but that China wins global AI dominance and the United States and the West do not.

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  The single greatest risk of AI is that China wins global AI dominance and we – the United States and the West – do not.

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Software engineer and writer; former CTO of Wave, now at Anthropic. Blogs at benkuhn.net on attention, engineering management and doing hard things well.

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  People with little experience at a task often welcome a degree of close oversight, provided it is given thoughtfully.

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  People with low task-relevant maturity appreciate some amount of micromanagement (if they're self-aware and you're nice about it).

  Some mistakes I made as a new managerbenkuhn.net

Writer and researcher on China, technology and industry; author of Breakneck, research fellow at Stanford, known for a widely read annual letter.

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  The 2021 crackdown was a bounded correction, and it would take more than a regulatory campaign to defeat China's economic dynamism.

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  My view is that it’s going to take more than this regulatory campaign to defeat dynamism in China.

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  What I did not sufficiently appreciate is that a state that would so casually decapitate a sector like online tutoring would also have the will to visit catastrophe upon whole cities.

From one piece Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Rates 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Automatic fiscal stabilizers give fiscal policy an advantage over monetary policy in stabilizing output because they act faster.

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  In some dimensions, fiscal policy has an advantage over monetary policy in stabilizing output. The main example is indeed the operation of automatic stabilizers, which act faster than monetary policy can.

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  Fiscal multipliers vary across time and place but are generally nonzero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and larger when monetary policy cannot offset them.

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  Multipliers are likely to vary a lot over time and space, but the bulk of the evidence is that they are different from zero, positive for spending, negative for taxes, and that they are stronger when monetary policy does not or cannot react to fiscal policy.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu

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  Canceling government bonds held by a central bank creates no fiscal space, because the reduction in government interest payments is exactly offset by an equal reduction in the profits the central bank remits to the government.

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  The proposition is that the cancellation of the bonds held by the central bank would decrease the amount of interest payments and thus the debt service of governments. And indeed, it would. But it would have another effect—namely, to decrease the revenues of the central bank and thus the profits that the central bank turns in to the government. This second effect would be exactly of the same size as the first, and the net effect on the government budget constraint would be equal to zero.

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  The main obstacle to sound fiscal policy debate is a widespread, quasi-religious belief that public debt is inherently bad.

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  The main challenge in discussing fiscal policy is the widely held and nearly religious belief that public debt is very bad.

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  A fiscal expansion when the economy is already at potential output prompts monetary tightening that dampens or eliminates its effect on output.

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  If a fiscal expansion takes place when output is already at potential, monetary policy is likely to tighten, leading to higher interest rates and thus a smaller effect or even no effect of the fiscal expansion on output.

  Fiscal Policy under Low Interest Ratesdirect.mit.edu